Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

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Matilda Gilchrist

Title: Mrs Gilchrist
Alias: Tillie
Nationality: English
Date of birth: 1828 or 1829
Place of birth: Milford Haven
Category: model

Identity:

'Tillie' Gilchrist, Whistler's model, may have been Mrs Matilda Gilchrist (b. 1828 or 1829), the mother of the dancer and actress Connie Gilchrist.

Life:

Tillie Gilchrist posed for Whistler on a number of occasions and appears in Study for 'Tillie: A Model' m0369, Tillie: Study in Pink and Mauve m0370 and Tillie: A Model [113]. She was a widow at the time of the 1881 census.

Bibliography:

MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 .